Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

I just released libopenraw 0.1.0. It is to be treated as a snapshot as it hasn't reached the level of functionality I was hoping for and it has been 5 years since last release.
Head on to the download page to get a tarball.
Several new API, some API + ABI breakage. Now the .pc files are parallel...

Once upon a time, I started geotagging my photos. For that I bought a
GPS logger, an Holux M-1200E. The device works great with gpsbabel, and since my
photography workflow was stuck on MacOS, I used Houdah GPS (which uses
gpsbabel behind the scene, BTW). Also I have been working for too long
on...

But why automake? Cargo is nice.
Yes it is. But it is also limited to build the Rust crate. It does one thing, very well, and easily.
Although I'm writing a GNOME application and this needs more than building the code. So I decided I need to wrap the build process into automake.
Let's start...

A couple of weeks ago, I released gudev-rs, Rust wrappers for gudev. The goal was to be able to receive events from udev into a Gtk application written in Rust. I had a need for it, so I made it and shared it.
It is mostly auto-generated using gir-rs from the gtk-rs project. The license is MIT....

When you work on a 18 year old code base like AbiWord, you encounter stuff from another age. This is the way it is in the lifecycle of software where the requirement and the tooling evolve.
Nonetheless, when AbiWord started in 1998, it was meant as a cross-platform code base written in C++ that...

Last week I released Exempi 2.3.0. It adds a couple more APIs and fix a few bugs.
Also I have now released my first Rust crate, that provide a Rust API to Exempi: exempi-rs. Short of rewriting the whole parsing in Rust for safety — the core of Exempi is Adobe official XMP SDK written in C++ —,...

Over the last holidays I plunged and started learning Rust in a practical way. Coming from a C++ background, and having a strong dislike of the whole concept of checking the correctness at runtime, like in, say, JavaScript, Rust is really promising.
With Rust, you get:
raw performance since it is...

I released No Flash 0.5.1 to fix a few bugs:
Identify more YouTube embedding corner cases like youtube-nocookie (Issue 44)
Update the SDK to fix issues with recent Firefox (44 and up)
It is available on AMO now....

Now that letsencrypt is more widely released, I took the opportunity to generate the certificates and install them manual on my hosting. In the future I will flip the switch to force HTTPS here. For now I made sure to avoid mixed-content as much as I could.
This was long overdue.
PS: I forgot to...

Last week I released No Flash 0.5, my addon for Firefox to fix the legacy of video embedding done with Flash. If you are like me and don't have Flash installed, sometime you encounter embedded video that don't work. No Flash will fix some by replacing the Flash object with a HTML5 video. This is...